Dogs guarding drugs stash

A Limerick man who used an Alsatian and a Rottweiler to guard cocaine and cannabis stashed in a boundary block wall at the back of his garden has avoided a jail sentence.

Michael Considine, aged 59, pleaded guilty to two counts of drugs possession at his house on December 11, 2013, when gardaí searched his home after they received confidential information.

Detective Sgt Alan Cullen told the court gardaí from the divisional drugs unit called to Considine’s home at 100 Oliver Plunkett St, St Mary’s Park.